2012-12-01
2012-12-31
x china
x Capitol Hill Hearings

PROGRAM
Capitol Hill Hearings 3
STATION
CSPAN 3
DATE
Dec 26th (Wed) 2
Dec 6th (Thu) 1
LANGUAGE
English 3
TOPIC
china 3
michigan 3
new york 3
obama 3
texas 3
virginia 3
washington 3
afghanistan 2
alice 2
annie 2
barack obama 2
berlin 2
c-span 2
carol 2
chicago 2
chuck 2
( more )

Set Clip Length:

CSPAN - Capitol Hill Hearings
more/borrow
Dec 25, 2012
CSPAN
Capitol Hill Hearings
more/borrow
Dec 25, 2012


was pulling miserably. even in michigan, people did not want to intervene to save the auto industry. he had a lengthy meeting with the odd note team -- with the auto team. i reported on the pulling and he said, look, i completely understand what people feel that way. but if we don't do anything, we will lose an iconic american institution and a million jobs will go with it in the midst of the worst recession since the great depression. so we need to get them to rationalize the industry can get them to make cars for the 21st century. we have to make that shot. and he did. i think the results are clear now. on health care, i can categorically report you that there was not anybody who was telling him that taking on health care was a good political issue. we knew even in the campaign, in the general election of 2008, what a difficult issue was. we took the offensive on it. the president said we have been trying to solve this problem for 60 years. if we do not do it in the first two years, it will never get done. we're not here to husband their popularity and admire it on the shelf. we're here t
CSPAN - Capitol Hill Hearings
more/borrow
Dec 26, 2012
CSPAN
Capitol Hill Hearings
more/borrow
Dec 26, 2012


pennsylvania, michigan, or minnesota, that i would shave my mustache off. he agreed he would grow one if we want florida or north carolina. of course i one of the bet. joe negotiated his way out by saying he will give us $10,000 -- they have been great supporters of hours -- and they would do a fund-raiser for us and we're a fake moustache of our choosing. we then said, if we could raise $1 million by the end of this month for epilepsy research, for a cure, i would still shave off my moustache on "morning joe." this is the final week. we have raised close to $900,000. there is still time. anybody who wants to log on to slashthestache.com can contribute. [applause] >> i know i speak on behalf of everyone when i say we look forward to seeing much more of you on campus. thanks so much for everything. >> thank you. i am so excited to be here. i think this is going to be an extraordinary institute. students are going to benefit from it. the community will benefit from it. we'll make university of chicago a real destination for the newsmakers, for practitioner in politics. it will be a great addi
CSPAN - Capitol Hill Hearings
more/borrow
Dec 5, 2012
CSPAN
Capitol Hill Hearings
more/borrow
Dec 5, 2012


if we extend all of these middle-class tax cuts. in michigan, to share with me what $2,200 means to them. one of them said it was four months of groceries. that is a big deal. we were figuring out gallons of gas to go back and forth to work. it could buy -- for the average commuter, they could go back and forth to work for three years. when families are going into the holidays, they need to know that we get it. we see every day, republicans in the house as well as olympia snowe that urged us to come together to get this done. we have heard from tom cole that they pass the senate bill. we are hearing from house members saying to get this piece done. republicans said, why don't you get together and get things done? we know that if the discharge petition comes out before the house, they have enough votes to pass it. why wait 27 days? why not just do it now. the house needs to take up a bill that we gave them back in july. it passed on a bipartisan vote here and when is brought up in the house it will pass with a bipartisan vote. >> i want to echo a little bit of what the senator said. consu

Excerpts 0 to 2 of about 3 results.



Terms of Use (10 Mar 2001)